Spooler-guide.



PATBNTED' MAY 24, 1904;

M. B. SULLIVAN. SPOOLER GUIDE. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 2, 1904.

N0 IODEL.

LNG. 761,018.

I-alcntod May 24, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT CEETCE.

MICHAEL E. SULLIVAN. OF NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO DRAPER COMPANY, OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORA- TION OF MAINE.

SPOOLER-GUIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 'No. 761,018, dated. May 24, 1904.

Application filed March 2, 1904.

of New Bedford, county of Bristol, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Spooler-Guides, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a simple and efiicient spooler-guide or clearer, which may be quickly and easily cleaned when necessary.

In accordance with my invention the guide comprises a fixed jaw and a cooperating mov able jaw fulcrumed on the fixed jaw at the inner end thereof, the movable jaw being provided with a weighted extension. Normally the weight of said extension holds the movable jaw in operative position with relation to the fixed jaw, so that the yarn may pass between the opposed acting faces of the jaws. By lifting the extension, however, the movable jaw is rocked bodily on its fulcrum entirely away from the .fixed jaw, and the separated and exposed acting faces or edges of the two jaws can be easily cleaned by rubbing the fingers across them.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a spoolerguide embodying my invention in operative position, a portion of the supportingrod therefor being shown. Fig. 2 is left-hand end elevation thereof; and Fig. 3 is a righthand end elevation of the guide, the movable jaw being shown in dotted lines, Figs. 2 and 3, in position to be cleaned.

Referring to the drawings, the fixed jaw 1, havingv an elongated acting face or edge 2, has an integral foot 3, shaped to partly embrace the usual supporting-rod A of the spooler, a cooperating clamp member being secured to the foot 3 by screws 5 5, Figs. 2 and 3, to clamp the jaw upon the rod. At its inner end said jaw is enlarged or provided with a boss 6, into which is screwed a headed stud 7, which forms a fulcrum for the movable jaw 8, the stud being parallel to the face 2 of the fixed jaw and located below it in the Serial No. 196,199. (No model.)

upright plane of the body of said jaw. The movable jaw 8 has an elongated acting face or edge 9 normally opposite the face 2 of jaw 1, said jaw 8 being provided at its inner end with an offset or depending hub 10, which is mounted to rock on the stud 7, as clearly shown. An extension or arm 11 is made integral with the jaw 8 and projects therefrom at right angles to the fulcrum-stud, the extension having an enlarged or weighted free end, as at 12. The extension projects across the rod A and is shown as concaved to rest thereupon when the guide is in use, at such time the acting faces of the jaws 1 and 8 being opposed and slightly separated to permit thepassage of the yarn between them. At such time motes, bunches, &c., will be cleared from the yarn as it is wound upon the Spool. The normal or operative position of the movable jaw is shown in full lines in the drawings. When it is desired to clean the face of either or both jaws, the attendant lifts the weighted end of the extension 11 into dotted line position, Figs. 2 and 3. This rocks the upper jaw 8 on its fulcrum 7, and, as shown in dotted lines, Figs. 2 and 3, it is swung bodily entirely away from the lower jaw, and thereby the two acting faces of the jaws are completely separated and exposed, and said faces are cleaned quickly and easily by rubbing the fingers across them. When the extension is released, its weight causes it to drop upon the rod A, returning the movable jaw to normal operative position.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

2. A spooler-guide comprising afixed lower jaw, a stud mounted in the inner end thereof parallel to the acting face of said jaw, a 00- operating movable jaw having a depending hub fulcrumed on the stud, and a weighted extension on said movable jaw adapted to normally rest on the support for the spoolerguide and maintain the movable jaw in operative position.

3. A spooler-guide comprising a fixed lower jaw, a headed stud screwed into the inner end thereof parallel to and below its acting face,

a cooperating movable upper jaw having at its inner end a depending hub fulcrumed on the headed stud, whereby the upper jaw may be swung bodily entirely away from the lower jaw, and an integral, weighted extension on the hub and at right angles to the stud, to normally maintain the movable jaw in operative position.

4. Aspooler-guide comprising a fixed lower jaw, a cooperating movable upper jaw fulcrumed on one end of the lower jaw directly below and parallel to its upper face, whereby the upper jaw may be swung bodily entirely 1 away from the lower jaw to facilitate elean- 

